Ancient Italy – Ovid Banished from Rome is an 1838 historical landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. It depicts a scene from Ancient Rome when the celebrated poet Ovid was exiled by order of the Emperor Augustus in 8 AD.https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/turner/113 It is companion piece to Modern Italy – The Pifferari, which was displayed alongside it at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1838 at the National Gallery in London.
The painting is now in a private collection. It was lent to appear at the 2025-26 exhibition Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals held at Tate Britain.Concannon p.203
See also List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner
References
Bibliography Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun. Tate Enterprises, 2013. Concannon, Amy (ed.) Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals.Tate Publishing, 2025